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  MSN Encarta - Wapiti
Wapiti, also American elk, ruminant mammal native to the northern part of the western hemisphere from southern Canada to northern Mexico, and conspecific with the red deer of Europe, northwestern Africa, and Asia.
The wapiti formerly ranged throughout the temperate regions of the western hemisphere, but the advance of civilization limited its range and caused huge herds to be slaughtered for food and sport.
In late spring some populations of wapiti leave the lowlands and migrate to the upper reaches of the mountain forests.
encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761579224/Wapiti.html   (281 words)

  
 Red Deer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Red Deer (Cervus elaphus), known as elk or wapiti in North America, are the second largest species of deer in the world.
These harsh penalties were abolished during the reign of Henry III, although deer were still preserved by law for the sport of the monarch until the 19th century.
Elk (also known as Wapiti, a Shawnee name meaning 'white rump') are an Old World deer species that originated in Eurasia and spread to North America, crossing the Bering Land Bridge during the ice age.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wapiti   (2096 words)

  
 Elk, or Wapiti
The wapiti, or elk is the largest of Colorado's native deer.
Our wapiti is a Holarctic species, which means it occurs in both North America and Eurasia, and in Eurasia it is known as the red deer.
Wapiti are gregarious animals, sometimes moving in herds of several hundred individuals.
www.yampavalley.info /ag_and_envir0175.asp   (408 words)

  
 Wapiti   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Wapiti weigh 230 to 450 kg (500 to 1,000 lbs.) and stand 0.75-1.5 m (2.5-5 ft.) high at the shoulder.
Only 3,500 wapiti live in the wild in the United States east of the Mississippi River and that population is spread over seven states.
Wapiti, like moose and caribou, are an Old World deer species that originated in Eurasia and spread to North America, crossing the Bering Land Bridge during the ice age.
www.apawn.com /search.php?title=Wapiti   (2148 words)

  
 wapiti on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The wapiti is grayish brown, with a chestnut mane and yellowish rump patch and short tail.
Wapiti in the Washakie: deep in the Wyoming wilderness, the stars shine a little bit brighter.
The Good, the Bad and the Wapiti - While elk are returning to their former haunts in the East, they are the focus of concern and controversy in the West.
www.encyclopedia.com /html/w1/wapiti.asp   (538 words)

  
 Rocky Mountain PBS: New Frontier
The wapiti, known in America as elk, are the largest deer native to Colorado.
Wapiti feed on grass during the summer and spring seasons.
Wapiti are often found in herds, some as large as several hundred.
www.rmpbs.org /learn/frontier/wwest/elk.html   (475 words)

  
 wapiti
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 Ministry of Environment - Wapiti Lake Provincial Park
Wapiti Lake Provincial Park is located about 60 km south of Tumbler Ridge in the upper portions of the Wapiti River drainage.
The trail is approximately 19 km and follows the north side of the Wapiti River and the shores of a few smaller lakes.
Backpacking time to Wapiti Lake is variable and depending on your level of experience allow 6-9 hours for the one way trip to km 19.
wlapwww.gov.bc.ca /bcparks/explore/parkpgs/wapiti_lake.htm   (1263 words)

  
 Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust!
The male wapiti may stand taller than 1.5 m (5 feet) at the shoulder and, though it averages about 295 kg (650 pounds), may weigh up to 500 kg (1,100 pounds); the female is shorter and lighter.
The coat of the wapiti is light to dark brown with a pale rump patch; the shoulders and neck are covered with long, shaggy, dark brown hair.
The wapiti requires large amounts of grasses, leaves, and other such food; when natural supplies are low, as in a severe winter, it may resort to cultivated crops, orchards, and haystacks.
www.britannica.com /ebc/print_toc?tocId=9076071   (343 words)

  
 Wapiti,Mammals,Wapiti Picture,Mammal Pictures,Catalog,Encyclopedia
The wapiti, or American elk, Cervus elaphus canadensis, the largest living deer, family Cervidae, next to the moose, is now found only in remote areas of the Rocky Mountains and Canada, principally in national parks.
Victims of declining open space and overhunting, wapiti require large tracts of semiopen woodland in which to forage for grasses, twigs, leaves, and other plant material.
The neck and shoulders of the wapiti are covered with a shaggy mane; the coat is brownish gray with a whitish yellow rump patch.
www.4to40.com /earth/geography/htm/mammalsindex.asp?counter=162   (173 words)

  
 Wapiti, or Red Deer (from deer) --  Britannica Student Encyclopedia
The deer family's second largest member is Cervus elaphus, which is called the wapiti or elk in North America and the red deer in the rest of its range.
Included among the approximately three dozen species in the deer family are moose; wapiti, or red deer; and caribou, or reindeer.
In North America the greatest numbers of wapiti are found in the western United...
www.britannica.com /ebi/article?tocId=199464&ct=eb   (658 words)

  
 Wild Animal and Plant Information Transfer Infrastructure (WAPITI)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
WAPITI is a federated network of dataservers in Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia.
WAPITI was developed and is maintained by the Fish and Wildlife Information Exchange, a division of the Conservation Management Institute of Virginia Tech.
WAPITI currently serves taxonomy, distribution, status, and habitat distribution data of vertebrates from the wildlife databases of Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia.
www.nbii.gov /metadata/mdata/htmlfiles/vt_cmi_wapiti.html   (1201 words)

  
 Wapiti Woods Guest Cabin Rentals in Elk County, PA
“Wapiti” is a Shawnee Indian word meaning, literally, “white butt” or elk.
Modernized rustic guest cabins are arranged to meet the needs of anyone looking for an interlude from home and work, a friendly gathering or an excursion to the great outdoors of northcentral Pennsylvania.
Wapiti Woods is located to provide easy and scenic access to all season activities.
www.wapitiwoods.com   (449 words)

  
 Wapiti Waters
With a thirty year investment in the art of fly fishing, he is intimately acquainted with the surrounding fisheries and their corresponding ecologies.
It is his passion and enthusiasm for the sport, a respect and knowledge of trout habitat, and the ability to expertly instruct the technical aspects of fly fishing that clients appreciate as they return to western Montana and Wapiti Waters.
Wapiti Waters is located out of Victor, which is the center of the Bitterroot Valley.
visitmt.com /categories/moreinfo.asp?IDRRecordID=9650&SiteID=1   (121 words)

  
 Camp Wapiti   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
In the proud history of the Order of Elks, the greatest successes in charitable endeavors have arisen from challenges that could not be met by one person alone, but that could be addressed wonderfully by a group of dedicated people and Lodges.
Established as a summer camp for medically challenged youngsters, still its primary function, Camp Wapiti is gradually expanding its role in its service to the state, Tooele County, and the city of Tooele.
Tucked away in a small canyon in the mountains just south of Tooele and about 15 miles from the southern shore of Great Salt Lake, the facility is a tribute to the remarkable cooperation among a number of organizations and agencies.
www.infowest.com /personal/e/elks/camp_wapiti.htm   (274 words)

  
 The Good, the Bad and the Wapiti - National Wildlife Magazine
Michigan wapiti occasionally stop traffic by grazing on the median of busy Interstate 75, and elk once ate all the plastic flowers off graves in a Kentucky cemetery.
Other bluegrass wapiti strayed onto a golf course, where a bull repeatedly pulled flagsticks from their holes while his companions stomped around the greens.
The next time that big bull bugles, the next time antlers clash in a meadow, the next time wapiti hooves pound the sod, it may all be (figuratively, at least) in your backyard.
www.nwf.org /nationalwildlife/article.cfm?issueID=33&articleID=312   (1982 words)

  
 Diseases of wapiti utilizing cattle range in southwestern Alberta -- Kingscote et al. 23 (1): 86 -- Journal of Wildlife ...
Specimens from 28 wapiti (Cervus elaphus canadensis) were collected by hunters in southwestern Alberta in 1984.
Leptospiral serology on cattle in the area did not indicate that wapiti or cattle were a serious source of infection to each other.
Within the limits of this study, the results indicated that wapiti in the Waterton area do not pose a disease threat to the cattle with which they range, but periodic observational studies in these wapiti would be a useful means of early detection of any changes in the interspecies relationship.
www.jwildlifedis.org /cgi/content/abstract/23/1/86   (292 words)

  
 About Rita O'Dell. Associate Broker. Wapiti Real Estate, LLC   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Whether you are buying or selling real estate, contact Rita O' Dell at Wapiti Real Estate, L.L.C. Being a former president of the Park County Board of Realtors, her experience, professionalism and knowledge in Real Estate has been a great asset to Northwest Wyoming.
Cody, Wapiti, Park County and the Big Horn Basin is the place for you if you long to live in the mountains or by the water.
Wapiti is only 32 miles from Yellowstone National Park and is the home of the Buffalo Bill Reservoir.
www.ritaodell.com   (268 words)

  
 Wapiti
Wapiti’s breeding (Gold Heels, AQHA x Cuadroon, AQHA) made him a Quarter Horse, but the long line of roan mares in his pedigree gave him spots.
Mavis and her daughters often swapped breedings and horses between their operations, with Wapiti — a 1949 bay colt with a white blanket and dark peacock spots — being one of their most famous foals.
Succumbing to cancer in 1979, the great stallion is buried at Flying W Ranch under a life-size statue of his likeness.
www.appaloosajournal.com /magazine/bloodlines/archives/wapiti.html   (342 words)

  
 wapiti   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
he wapiti, or elk, is the largest of Colorado’s native deer (7 – 9 feet long, with a 4- to 6-inch tail, and weighing 450 – 900
The wapiti is brownish tan in color, with a yellowish rump and a dark mane on the shoulders.
efore the arrival of European settlers, wapiti ranged nearly throughout the area that is now Colorado, including the eastern plains.
wildlife.state.co.us /Education/mammalsguide/wapiti.asp   (383 words)

  
 Wapiti Regional Library - an entire world worth exploring.
Wapiti Regional Library has over 400,000 resources and annual use approaching 1,000,000.
Wapiti enables our local libraries to provide equitable access to information for educational, recreational and cultural development in the most cost efficient and time effective manner.
Wapiti Regional Library belongs to its 122 member municipalities and these municipalities belong to their citizens, so Wapiti Regional Library is YOUR library.
www.panet.pa.sk.ca   (170 words)

  
 Wildernet - Wapiti Ranger District
Most of the recreation facilities are located along the North Fork of the Shoshone, with several on the South Fork.
The route is known for its abundant wildlife, fishing, intriguing rock formations, numerous campgrounds and access to wilderness areas.
Location - The Wapiti Ranger District is located between the city of Cody and Yellowstone National Park, in northwest Wyoming.
www.wildernet.com /pages/moreinfo.cfm?areaID=021404&CU_ID=1   (519 words)

  
 Yellowstone National Park Area Information
Even grizzly bears are occasionally seen in Wapiti Valley, as are bighorn sheep, moose, mule deer, fl bear, now and then an antelope, and­of course­elk, or "Wapiti" in the Shoshone language.
Wapiti Ranger Station was the country's first as well.
Carole Cloudwalker, a 23-year Wapiti Valley resident, is a freelance writer and journalist affiliated with the Wyoming Tribune-Eagle in Cheyenne.
www.jacksonholenet.com /mountainctry/wap.htm   (580 words)

  
 wapiti   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
RAF machines serving in hot dry areas frequently dispensed with wheel covers to prevent sand and grit accumulating inside the spokes.
The Life Like Bulldog would supply a Jupiter engine for the larger scale and the Airfix the same for the smaller.
The typical Wapiti bulge under the fore part of the fuselage could be moulded or, as it is shallow (especially in 1:72 scale), shaped from a double layer of plastic card.
www.wwimodeler.com /harry/annex/wapiti.htm   (161 words)

  
 A Maine Family Vacation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Camp Wapiti is approximately 100 miles north of Bangor and only 22 miles from Interstate 95.
On your arrival however, you will realize Camp Wapiti is truly "where the road ends and trails begin".
Camp Wapiti has been serving sportsman and their families since 1912.
www.campwapiti.com   (171 words)

  
 British Columbia Wapiti
The Wapiti is found in the Rocky Mountain area of British Columbia, Canada.
The Wapiti weighing up to 800 pounds is easily identified by the white patch on its butt and mangy mane.
The Wapiti numbers are falling fast and it is one of the animals that is very elusive in British Columbia with only a few herds left in the higher elevations.
www.bceh.com /wildlife/wapiti.htm   (157 words)

  
 MSN Encarta - Multimedia - Wapiti
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The wapiti, or American elk, although originally ranging throughout the temperate regions of North America, is now largely restricted to mountainous areas of the United States and Canada.
Wapiti herds migrate with the seasons, moving in the spring from lowland areas to mountainous areas where they remain until the late fall, when they again return to lower elevations.
encarta.msn.com /media_461517338/Wapiti.html   (80 words)

  
 Wapiti Basin Outfitters - Montana Elk Hunting   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
If you are looking for a true western mountain hunting experience and understand the effort involved and challenges that "result oriented" bull elk hunting presents, I promise you will leave our camp satisfied that we deliver more than you expected.
But what makes Wapiti Basin Outfitters different is our dedication to hunting Montana Bull Elk.
Wapiti Basin Outfitters offers serious hunters an unforgettable experience that will bring you a lifetime of memories.
www.wapitibasinoutfitters.com   (156 words)

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